Saturday, September 29, 2012

Hate List, Inc.

Astonishing amount of money spent on massive smear campaign

The Southern Poverty Law Center – which has labeled WND and other
conservative organizations “hate groups” – is spending massive amounts
of money to promote hate-crime propaganda rather than funding its
purported mission.

The SPLC bills itself as a nonprofit civil rights group dedicated to
fighting hate and bigotry. However, WND has reported extensively on how
the organization ignores left-leaning groups, choosing instead to
exclusively list conservative groups as so-called “hate” organizations.

The report noted that the SPLC has more than $238 million in assets,
making it one of the wealthiest nonprofits in the country. Despite this,
the organization spends nearly 20 percent of its budget on fundraising.

In 2011, the group spent $6.5 million for fundraising, with $5.5
million going for salaries and administrative expenses.

According to the SPLC’s 2010 tax return, the group spent $12.5
million maintaining, publishing and promoting its hate group reports.
However, when it came to fulfilling its primary mission, the group only
spent $11 million.

The tax returns also noted the group enjoyed a net gain of $28.8
million, prompting Simpson to ask why it continues to raise funds. He
said the group keeps adding tens of millions of dollars to its endowment
fund, and some of its assets are tucked away in Bermuda and Cayman
Island accounts.

While the SPLC does not appear to be breaking any laws, CRC Vice
President Scott Walter said, at the very least, the expenditures violate
good business practices.

“From a good business practice perspective, spending so much on
fundraising while they are sitting on hundreds of millions of dollars –
along with their lavish offices – is contributing to their losing their
respect and prestige,” Walter said. “When you compare the amount that is
actually used to defend people in court, that is a very small amount
compared to their bigger balance sheet and far less than what they spend
on fundraising, even though they have enough money to get by for years
and years.”

According to Simpson, the SPLC has benefited from the Bernie Madoff
Ponzi scam. The group’s biggest benefactor was the Picower Foundation,
founded by Jeffrey Picower, who was friends with Bernie Madoff for 30
years and made $5 billion in profits from his “investments” with Madoff.

Following Picower’s death in 2009, federal prosecutors took over his
estate in an attempt to recoup money for Madoff’s victims. The estate
eventually settled and agreed to pay $7.2 billion to compensate Madoff’s
victims. The Picower Foundation has since closed its doors, but Simpson
asked if the SPLC will ever refund any of Picower’s donations to help
those who lost their life savings in Madoff’s scheme.

In an article for the Progressive, SPLC Co-Founder Morris Dees’ first
business partner, Millard Fuller, who later founded Habitat for
Humanity, offered a different mission statement for the SPLC than that
presented on the group’s website.

“Morris and I, from the first day of our partnership, shared the
overriding purpose of making a pile of money,” Fuller said. “We were not
particular about how we did it; we just wanted to be independently
rich. During the eight years we worked together, we never wavered in
that resolve.”

The group’s disproportionate emphasis on fundraising over helping
those it claims to represent has sparked criticism from left-wing groups
such as Nation magazine and Harper’s.

In a Harper’s article titled, “The Church of Morris Dees,” Millard
Farmer compared him to former evangelist Jim Bakker, who went to prison
for accounting fraud.

Harper’s has also described Dees’ fundraising as “flagrantly
misleading” solicitations for money, while the Nation called him “the
arch-salesman of hate mongering.”

WND has noted that the SPLC also received funding from billionaire
activist George Soros, who recently donated $1.5 million to help
re-elect President Obama, and other left-leaning groups including the
Daily Kos, SEIU, MoveOn.org, the Huffington Post and Media Matters.

The SPLC frequently accuses organizations such as WND, Family
Research Council and even the American Constitution Party as adhering to
“extreme anti-government doctrines.”

(The American Constitution Party in Colorado is officially a major political party in the state.)

Floyd Corkins II walked into the FRC headquarters with a backpack
full of Chik-fil-A sandwiches. He pulled out a loaded weapon shot guard
Leo Johnson. Authorities said Corkins made a “negative reference” about
the FRC’s work prior to shooting.

WND columnist Matt Barber, who is affiliated with Liberty Counsel
Action, noted the shooting was a logical outcome of the SPLC’s policy of
designating conservative organizations “hate groups.”

“This was intended to dehumanize Christian organizations and smear as
hate the biblical view of sexual morality,” Barber said. “I pointed
this out months ago in a column I wrote for WND, titled ‘Liberal Violence Rising,‘ where I basically predicted this sort of thing.”

Walter said because the SPLC uses hate groups to raise money,
designating pro-family and other conservative organization as such is
directly beneficial to the organization.

“The problem with their using their policy of using hate crime lists
to raise money is you always have to keep upping the ante over time,” he
said. “That’s how you go from the Aryan Nations and KKK to listing the
tea party and FRC as a hate group.”

Obama's Abandoned Power Plants

If voters knew how America's economy would look after two terms
of President Barack Obama's administration, Mitt Romney would win in a
landslide.

In the 2008 campaign, President Obama told the San Francisco
Chronicle that the “notion of no coal...is an illusion.” He noted that
he favors a cap-and-trade system “[s]o if somebody wants to build a
coal-powered plant, they can. It’s just that it will bankrupt them
because they’re going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse
gas that’s being emitted.”

While Obama did not get to implement cap-and-trade, he found other ways to shut down coal burning power plants.

In the name of a rigidly anti-prosperity ideology, Obama's
administration, through the Environmental Protection Agency, is
continuing its war on jobs and reliable sources of energy. And like most
onerous regulations, the true costs are not immediately visible.

As announced by Lisa Jackson, the chief EPA Administrator, three new
regulations for air emission standards have been announced, which will
cost American consumers more than $13 billion per year. Also, according
to estimates by the Senate Republican Policy Committee, other rules
dealing with coal ash and air could cost an additional $90 billion
annually.

Obama's claim to have an "all-of-the-above" energy strategy is a
ruse. Instead, his administration seems determined to extend our
economic recession, while government bureaucrats find creative ways to
make energy more expensive.

More than 2,000 employees of the coal industry were laid off this
year, and that industry expects 10,000 more layoffs in direct and
related jobs. In addition, as reported by Human Events, leaked documents
from the Obama administration estimates that one rule on water quality
requirements will be responsible for an additional 7,000 fired workers.

The new regulations are so extreme that, in effect, they require all
new power plants must be powered by natural gas, an imperfect fuel.

This may make the natural gas lobbyists who work with the Obama
administration happy, but the incredible amounts of methane expanded
natural gas would not please environmentalists.

In five months, natural gas prices have increased by 52%, with the
Obama administration's rules largely to blame. According to Reuters
data, as demand is expanding globally, natural gas is quickly
approaching a price which is $2 more than the same per unit, which
results in higher energy prices for cash-strapped consumers who already
heat their homes with natural gas.

Even though industry has been able to dramatically decrease noxious
pollutants from coal over the past 40 years, Obama's heavy-handed rules
have slashed coal production by one-third. In my state of Ohio, the coal
industry has been devastated by drastic EPA regulations.

As you can see from this map, 175 fully-functional coal burning
plants are being retired across the country, which puts further strain
on our outdated energy grid while putting thousands of employees out of
work.

Environmentalist groups aligned with the Obama administration, such
as the Sierra club, are happy to see coal burning plants shut down, and
have nearly 400 more plants targeted. But with the White House's
emphasis on efficient "green energy" such as solar panels, they would
not want to see the recent Heritage Foundation study which shows such a
switch would increase a family's $200/month energy bill to $700.

President Barack Obama is playing favorites with sources of energy,
while destroying jobs and hurting consumers. America is in desperate
need of a new direction on energy policy.

Look
for 35 of these billboards throughout Florida in the coming days. The
message is clear. Failed foreign and unsustainable fiscal and monetary
policy are leading us down a ruinous path that must be reversed
immediately.

Obama bows to the Saudis, goes on mindless TV shows, lies about Benghazi, but will NOT meet with Netanyahu to discuss existential threats?

Need anymore be said...

Benjamin Netanyahu is a very wise man...a very wise man
indeed.The Israeli Prime Minister alluded
in his speech before the UN that Israel doesn't intend to launch a military
strike on Iran's nuclear facilities in the next few months...meaning before our
elections.

Why...because he knows he needs The United States to cover
Israel’s back and he knows when push comes to shove that Barack HUSSEIN Obama
will find any and every excuse NOT to do just that.

Netanyahu knows that even when Obama speaks all the right sounding
words in public, those words are hollow and that NO actions will follow...at
least NO actions for Israel’s benefit that is.

And now Netanyahu has to deal with the bloviating of General
Mohammad Ali Jafari, the Commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard who publicly
stated, “Israel's threats only strengthen our resolve.”

'When the Zionists make military threats, they are put in
their place by the United States,' he said in response to Netanyahu's UN
speech.

“...they are put in their place by the United States”...sadly,
true words, for Barack HUSSEIN Obama is NO friend to Israel...NEVER has
been...NEVER will be, and Benjamin Netanyahu knows this all too well as Obama
is the man who demands that Israel return to her indefensible pre-’67 borders.

And Netanyahu knows that if Barack HUSSEIN Obama can publicly
and with malice lie about America’s intentions concerning the fate of Israel before the clowns at the Useless
Nations, ‘We the People’ must accept the fact that Barack HUSSEIN Obama publicly
and intentionally lied to both the American people and the world about the American
consulate attack in Libya.

Why would he lie...to cover his butt is why.

As Obama repeatedly tries to focus attention on a private
citizen's joke of a video in order to deflect attention away from his administration's
incompetent and failed Mid-East policies, his ever-loving adoring media plays
down the fact that Obama said the turmoil in the Middle East is just ‘bumps in
the road.'

The turmoil in Libya, most specifically in Benghazi, is the ground zero jumping off point of all the latest
uprisings, and it's anything but ‘bumps in the road.’
But first a brief history...what is NOT being reported anywhere in the media is that a specific and very militant Libyan resistance has
been active since the downfall of Gaddafi in October 2011. These people strike any NATO and US targets
they can, and they assassinate key Libyans who betrayed Gaddafi and sided with
NATO. It's believed by those who know the Libyan mindset that the Benghazi attack and ensuing
murders was just their latest retaliation against what they see as NATO’s
illegal and Obama's sanctioned occupation of their country.

All Libyans know about the ‘Green
Resistance,’ whose members are called “Tahloob” (Arabic meaning ‘Gaddafi
loyalists’). And because the entire Libyan fiasco (remember, Obama broke our ‘Wars
Powers Clause and butt into a sovereign nation’s civil war when he had NO
legal right to do so) had become relegated to the backburner in the world’s eye
due to our election, they needed to bring focus back to their cause.

So how to bring the focus back to them and their objective of
revenge for the overthrow and death of Ghaddafi...divert attention away from
our all-important election by focusing on the one thing that would bring the
world’s eye back to them...riot and kill Americans in the name of allah.

And with the Obama controlled mainstream media not only NOT
reporting on this group’s involvement but denying their existence as well, the
cover-up was set.However, the
truth about the Green Resistance’s involvement was told the morning after
the attack by Libyan officials, but then within days all those investigating
the attack changed their story, now calling the attackers foreign extremists.Then
NATO installed Libyan president Magariaf, who is supported by Obama and
also aligned with the Muslim Brotherhood, went to
Benghazi three days after the attack and declared that “al-Qaeda did it”
saying it was NOT a spur of the moment riot due to an American video.
And here’s something NOT being reported anywhere...according to eye
witnesses there were
NO movie protesters...NONE...in Benghazi at the time of the attack.

The so-called ‘bump in the road’ in which Ambassador Stevens
and three other Americans were brutally murdered, has now become Obama’s bed of
lies, innuendos, and subterfuge because it must never be known that the
Benghazi attack was revenge for Obama’s butting into Libya’s civil war and
overthrow of Ghadaffi. Obama didn’t
liberate Libya...all that was accomplished was regime change for the worst. Now the people of Libya, through groups like
the Green Resistance are fighting back against his outwardly criminal actions.

And the other Middle-East countries have piggy-backed off
the Libyan catalyst as their excuse to riot, kill, and destroy in the name of
allah and against what they call, ‘the great American satan.’This is what radical islam does...this is
what radical islam has always done and what radical islam will always do.

And that truth has to be told before Obama and his minions
cause any more problems in an area of the world beset by problems.These people want to live as they do...like
backwards barbarians...let them do what they want in their own cesspools of
countries....but keep them the hell out of ours and
keep them away from Israel.

Benghazi was the newest catalyst and Netanyahu is wise to this for he knows the true
objective of Barack HUSSEIN Obama, a man who supports and lies for islamic extremists,
for he said it very well in his speech, “Radical islam is bent on world
conquest...they want to end the modern world....they are rooted in the grounds
of intolerance...they want to drag humanity back to the age of unquestioning
dogma."

The Patriot Factor

I’m an American Patriot who refuses to let our beloved country be changed into something unrecognizable to us by a man who wants to radically change and destroy our America and take away our children’s future. We patriots ARE the grassroots movement and we bloggers must spread the truth about the corrupt and traitorous Obama regime and his sanctioned islamization of America before it’s too late.
I'm also co-host with Craig Andresen of RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS on CPR Worldwide Media and co-head of CPR's Journalism Department again with Craig Andresen.